Elad’s blog

The previous post was written while we were waiting on the bus station on Panajachel to the chicken bus that took us to Chicicastenango. This post describes further events that happened while we were waiting, the adventurous bus rides we took, the market at Chichi, an interesting dinner with Umberta and her boyfriend, and a few other things. Elina asked to write these descriptions from her point of view, so here it is.

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The big explosion, geologists claim, happened some 85,000 years ago. The immense pressure from a magma pit through the mountain-top away, created the huge volcanic caldera which is now the over 300 deep lake Atitlan. Later, secondary pipes formed additional volcanoes, which now spot the caldera’s rim. Further more, the tectonic movement took the area away from the magma pit, and the volcanoes died, leaving the amazing landscape of lake Atitlan’s surroundings.

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Here are a few pictures from Antigua and lane Atitlan area. Volcan Pacaya is not included - it is represented in the movie from the previous post.
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Just a nice movie I took on the Pacaya volcano. From where we are now I can´t see if it uploaded properly - I hope it did.

Lava on Pacaya

Ula, a Polish girl we met in San Marcos, spent a full hour yesterday sitting and watching the rain, thinking about life. She did it next to the hotel manager, who watched her and probably thought about her money. This is typical to San Marcos, as we found out on the single day we stayed there.

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By now, we developed this insight: the nice, beautiful, thin, Guatemalian girls grow up to be these short, wide, with ridiculous behinds, barrels. Let´s call them cholas, or better in Hebrew: Havitush. As it is so widespread, we developed this theory: can it be connected to the fact that all of them walk with huge, heavy, baskets on their heads?

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Reading the guidebook, I expected Antigua to be somewhat similar to Arequipa in Peru: a colonial town, built at the shadow of several active volcanoes, in Latin America. I was completely wrong. Both the city, and the volcanoe we climbed yesterday, have entirely different characters then Arequipa.

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This post is a tribute to Iberia airlines, who managed to safely get us, and our luggage, to Guatemala while not forgetting their heritage.

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Recently, I received this picture of a floating iceberg:

Besides its beauty, it reminded me of the nice trivia fact about the buried mountains.
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On Sunday morning I left home a bit later then usual. Before leaving Haifa I heard in the radio that the traffic jams start at Olga. “Bummer,” I thought to myself, “I don’t feel like standing two hours in a traffic jam all the way to work.” Recalling a convesation I had a few days ago about different transportation options, I decided it’s a good time to try the alternative: I parked my car at the railway station on Haifa, and took a train to Hertzeliya.

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